Compression of random binary data

[Gregory Ewing]

Stefan Ram wrote:
>   Well, then one can ask about the entropy of a data source
>   that only is emitting this message.

You can, but it's still the *source* that has the entropy,
not the message.

(And the answer in that case is that the entropy is zero.
If there's only one possible message you can ever send, you
don't need to send it at all!)

-- 
Greg